22:56
Pushing for clean politics, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad to work out a mechanism to settle criminal and other court cases against politicians within a year.The directive is in line with Modi's commitment during his...
22:12
Sanjita Chanu and Saikhom Mirabai win a gold and silver respectively in women's 48kg weightlifting in Commonwealth Games.
20:51
The crashed Air Algerie plane has been found at Tilemsi 70km from Gao in northern Mali.The plane with 116 onboard crashed after it was forced to divert due to a sandstorm. Flight AH5017 was flying from Burkina Faso to Algiers across the Sahara when Algerian aviation authorities lost contact...
20:45
Kurdish politician Fuad Masum became the new president of Iraq today, in a step towards forming a new government that visiting UN chief Ban Ki-moon said must be inclusive for the country to survive. A June onslaught on Sunni Arab areas north and west of of Baghdad led by the jihadist Islamic...
19:46
At least 15 people have been killed and more than 200 injured when a UN-run school used as a shelter in Gaza was shelled, the Gaza health ministry says. Hundreds of Palestinians were in the school in Beit Hanoun, fleeing heavy fighting in the area. It is the fourth time that a UN facility has...
19:32
Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad writes to leaders of all political parties to seek their views on the procedure of appointment to higher judiciary, reports Rediff.com's Anita Katyal. This comes in the backdrop of the NDA government's efforts to set up a judicial commission for the appointment of...
19:07
Meanwhile, Goa's State Cooperation Minister Dipak Dhavalikar has stirred up controversy by saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi will develop India into a Hindu nation. Interestingly, he is the brother of Sudin Dhavalikar, another minister in chief minister Manohar Parrikar's cabinet, who had...
18:54
Reuters reports that the Air Algerie aircraft's passenger list includes 50 people from France, 24 from Burkinabe, eight from Lebanon, four from Algeria and two from Luxembourg; one Belgian, one Swiss, one Nigerian, one Cameroonian, one Ukrainian and one Romanian.
18:49
An Air Algerie flight that went missing en route from Burkina Faso to Algiers has crashed, an Algerian aviation official told Reuters today. I can confirm that it has crashed, the official said, declining to give details of where the plane was or what caused the accident. The passenger list...
18:46
An Algerian aviation official told Reuters about the missing Air Algerie plane: I can confirm that it has crashed. No details on where the plane was or what caused the crash.
18:32
Meanwhile, the Congress is yet to reconcile itself to the fact that they have been decimated in the Lok Sabha elections. In Parliament today, Anand Sharma, Deputy Leader of the Congress in the Rajya Sabha, suddenly stood up and raised a point of order that there was no union cabinet minister...
18:21
The French military has deployed 2 Dassault Mirage 2000 to search the missing Air Algerie flight.
18:12
Reuters reports that the French military will be sending two fighter jets based in the region to try to locate the missing plane Air Algerie flight. Other than Chinese State TV and Algierian media nobody else has confirmed that the Air Algerie flight has crashed. So far, what we know is that it...
17:49
Update on the missing Air Algerie flight: Authorities in Algiers say they do not rule out any hypothesis, including hijacking.
17:45
As we pray nothing untoward has happened to the missing Air Algerie flight, here's what else is happening. Congress leader and former Maharashtra industries minister Narayan Rane met Rahul Gandhi today. Rane said, I had come to tell him the reason why I resigned. He will meet Sonia Gandhi...
17:26
The plane was not far from the Algerian frontier when the crew was asked to make a detour because of poor visibility and to prevent the risk of collision with another aircraft on the Algiers-Bamako route. Contact was lost after the change of course, says reports.
17:15
According to the the Spanish News Agency EFE, at least 80 passengers aboard Flight AH5017 are French nationals. The crew -- two pilots and four cabin attendants -- are all Spaniards.
17:12
The flight path of the plane from Ouagadougou, the capital of the west African nation of Burkina Faso, to Algiers wasn't immediately clear. Ougadougou is in a nearly straight line south of Algiers, passing over Mali where unrest continues in the north.
17:05
Algeria's national airline, Air Algerie flight AH 5017, with 110 passengers and six crew on board, may have crashed. According to reports by Chinese State TV and Algerian media, Air Algerie is believed to have crashed over Niger in Africa. Air Algerie said earlier today that it had lost contact...
16:56
Algerian media reports missing Air Algerie plane crashes in Niger (Africa) with 110 passengers and 6 crew members on board
16:39
Mahesh Bhupathi tweets his support for Sania Mirza: Is the @MirzaSania episode comical or upsetting?? Should be a lesson on how to get cheap publicity. No one knows you sir! Deal with it pls!!
16:35
DMK leader and former MP TR Baalu, who is 73 now, had a fall in Parliament recently and was given quick medical attention. But Baalu has to now be taken to Mumbai for cardiac treatment, we hear. Baalu used to be Union Minister in the VP Singh, Deve Gowda, IK Gujral, AB Vajpayee and Dr Manmohan...
16:27
Former Union Minister A Raja has vacated his government bungalow and moved into a private apartment in Delhi. Raja needs to stay in Delhi to attend the CBI court in the 2G case. His daughter, who was elected class monitor, is also appearing for her Board exams this year. The house that Raja will...
16:22
Former chief justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Thursday sent a defamation notice of Rs 20 billion to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan. Read
16:11
The 'world's tallest slum,' located in Venezuela, is being cleared of thousands of squatters. Read
15:58
Bug alert. Colonies of the Asian fire ant invade a house in the UK. Don't open this link if bugs creep you out. Here you go.
15:44
Amid a controversy over a Telangana BJP leader describing tennis star Sania Mirza as a non-local and daughter-in-law of Pakistan, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar today said the tennis ace is a pride and brand ambassador of India.Sania Mirza is a pride of India. Sania Mirza has an international...
15:38
India has hit the headlines for reasons other than sporting in the just-begun Commonwealth Games in Glasgow after it came to light that the country's flag was shown upside down in the official song for the 11-day event. The official song titled Let the Games Begin is also...
15:26
A Mumbai model has accused a senior IPS officer of rape and filed a police complaint against him.The officer, Sunil Paraskar, has been accused of assaulting the woman when he was additional Commissioner of Police, North Region. The model has reportedly filed her complaint at the...
15:19
Update on the rape of a girl in Bengal: A seven-year-old's body has been found hanging from a tree in Bengal. Villagers attacked a local tantric who they suspected of assaulting her, who later died in hospital today. Two of his associates who were also beaten up, are in hospital.The village...
15:09
Air Algerie said it lost contact with one of its aircraft nearly an hour after takeoff from Burkina Faso on Thursday bound for Algiers, reports AFP. Air navigation services have lost contact with an Air Algerie plane Thursday flying from Ouagadougou to Algiers, 50 minutes after...
14:55
What happened at Maharashtra Sadan: The real story behind the Shiv Sena force-feeding controversy. Read
14:50
Kiran Bedi too, tweets her support for Sania Mirza: She is not only the pride of India but she is also now the pride of Pakistan.Is that not great? A daughter remains a daughter, she doesn't lose the roots of her country,some of our elected ppl refuse to grow.
14:46
Journalist Rana Ayub tweets her support: Dear Sania, do not be disheartened, these are people who breathe, breed, perpetuate bigotry. They dint spare the Mahatma, why shud u bother.
14:21
A case has been filed and the body has been sent for post-mortem.
14:13
In other news: In a horrible replay of the Badaun gang-rapes, a seven-year-old girl has been allegedly gang-raped in East Midnapore in West Bengal. Her body was found hanging from a tree. Details awaited.
14:11
This is what Sania Mirza tweets on the controversy:I am married to Mr. Shoaib Malik, who is from Pakistan. I am an Indian, who will remain an Indian until the end of my life. I was born in Mumbai as my mother needed to be at a specialist hospital since she was seriously unwell at the time of my...
13:31
Telangana brand ambassador Sania Mirza finally issues a statement on the raging controversy over her appointment. After refusing to comment initially, Sania today said, I strongly condemn attempts by any person to brand me an outsider. My family belongs to Hyderabad for more than a century. I...
13:26
Raj Kundra came under attack on social media from Salman Khan fans over his statement to a publication where he was quoted saying, The amount Salman Khan earns from one film, I make in a month! He went to say that what he makes in a month is way higher than even Salman Khan's earnings from...
13:16
Doctors at the JJ Hospital in Byculla created a record of sorts by removing 232 teeth from a teenager, who came in with routine complaints of swelling and pain in the mouth. There are very few cases of this tooth developmental anomaly recorded in the dental literature, said doctors. Read
13:13
To ensure good quality catering in trains, the government today said various steps, including imposition of heavy penalties on entities for deficient services, are being initiated. Acknowledging that there are many complaints about catering in trains, Railways Minister D V Sadananda Gowda...
13:01
Stormy weather on the trailing edge of Typhoon Matmo was the likely cause of a plane crash on a Taiwanese island that killed 48 people, the airline said on Thursday.The ATR-72 operated by Taiwan's TransAsia Airways was carrying 58 passengers and crew when it crashed while landing in the...
12:56
The toll in the bus-train collision in Telangana has gone up to 25. The school students were killed and four injured when the Nanded Passenger train rammed into the school bus of Kakatiya Techno School at an unmanned crossing near in Medak district of Telangana today. The incident took place some...
12:54
JUST IN: Attack on prisoner convoy north of Baghdad kills 52 prisoners, 8 soldiers, says Iraqi officials.
12:53
In Delhi,a BJP-RSS meeting is underway at Nitin Gadkari's residence.
12:44
The government today said it will respond on the issue of Shiv Sena MPs force-feeding a fasting Muslim after ascertaining full facts by tomorrow. Congress, SP and Left members raised the issue when the Rajya Sabha met for the day saying 24 hours have passed since the issue was first raised...
12:35
Four days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first public statement surprisingly backing the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), former UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani met with the PM and finance minister Arun Jaitley and persuaded the new regime to persist with...
12:25
The toll from the bus-train collision in Telangana has gone up to 12. The accident happened after a school bus collided into a train at an unmanned railway crossing in the Medak district of Telangana this morning. The bus driver was also killed, while there were 40 children of the Kakatiya...
12:24
Wanted. A leader to rescue the Congress. Read AAP leader Ashutosh's blog.
11:49
Update on the MH17 crash: In the frenzy to determine who -- and what -- shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a group of citizen journalists armed with simple intuition and an Internet connection has been collecting information more nimbly than American spies. Read
11:42
BSP chief Mayawati on the Sania as Telangana ambassador issue: We should welcome Telangana Govt's decision of choosing Sania Mirza as its brand ambassador.
11:41
The Congress has described the BJP leader's statement against Sania Mirza as bizarre'. The TRS government has decided to appoint the tennis star as brand ambassador of the newly carved-out state. The BJP leader has said that Sania was born in Maharashtra and settled in Hyderabad only later and,...
11:38
A moment of sanity from the BJP. But first this: Telangana BJP leader K Laxman on Wednesday called tennis star Sania Mirza as the daughter-in-law of Pakistan and questioned her credentials to be the brand ambassador of Telangana.But senior leader MM Joshi today slammed the statement saying, If...
11:30
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's statement on the ongoing Gaza crisis during a discussion in the Rajya Sabha is an exercise in political correctness. By stating that New Delhi's stance on the Israel-Palestine issue has not shifted, and going ahead with a pro forma denunciation of...
11:19
China's mega warship plans become clearer with new photos. See
11:17
In other news: Foreign vendors are more than willing to sell or collaborate, but this does not necessarily bring state-of the-art technology to India's military hardware. Read
11:04
The voice of reason from the BJD -- Jay Panda on the Sania Mirza as Telangana brand ambassador issue: Wherever she may have married but she is an Indian citizen,this should be respected.
10:55
Officials fear the number of dead could rise. The driver of the bus may have tried to cross the railway tracks despite warnings of a train arriving. At the accident site, schoolbags and water-bottles lay scattered. Incidentally, the union rail budget 2014 had focussed on unmanned level crossings,...
10:48
Nine children are feared killed after a school bus has collided with a train in Telangana's Medak district of this morning. The bus carrying children of the Kakatiya School in the district, collided with the train at a railway crossing in Masaipet village.More details are awaited. Image:...
10:12
The National Students' Union Of India are holding protests outside Parliament over the incident at Maharashtra Sadan in New Delhi. Protestors are demanding action against Sena MPs who force-fed a catering supervisor at the Maharashtra government's official guest house in Delhi. The man, Arshad...
09:54
Telangana BJP leader K Laxman flayed the state government's decision to appoint tennis star Sania Mirza as the brand ambassador of the newly carved-out state, terming her as daughter-in-law of Pakistan and questioning her credentials for the honour.Sania was born in Maharashtra...
09:50
The benchmark BSE index Sensex today retreated from record high by losing over 25 points in early trade as investors booked profits in recent out performers, mainly capital goods, oil and gas and power sector stocks. The 30-share barometer, which had gained 1,140.35 points in the past seven...
09:25
The annual India-United States bilateral Malabar naval exercise which kicked off on Monday in the Asia Pacific region is not aimed at containing China, the Pentagon has said. It has absolutely no relations anything to do with China. If anything it is strengthening the US naval presence in the...
08:57
The Shiv Sena in its party mouthpiece Saamna defends its MPs who force-fed a catering supervisor at the Maharashtra government's official guest house in Delhi. The man, Arshad Zubair, was fasting for Ramzan.The incident was blown out of proportion and given a communal colour, the Shiv Sena said....
08:53
United States Vice President Joe Biden had a brief interaction with former Pakistan President Asif AliZardari at a private Iftaar dinner hosted by an eminent Pakistani-American. The presence of Zardari and Biden at the same privatedinner yesterday has generated wild speculations...
08:50
United States President Barack Obama called his Secretary of State John Kerry, who flew into Tel Aviv from Cairo despite warnings over airline safety, to take stock of the efforts to halt the bitter fighting between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas. Obama, during his call aboard Air...
03:42
A Keralite working as security guard in a private firm in Afghanistan died in a mine rpt mine explosion recently, according to information received by his family.The deceased was identified as Ponnappan, 52, from Kaduthurithi in Kottayam district, family sources said. The information was passed...
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Team Rahul rift with veterans continues, no respite in sightDialogue only option to resolve Palestinian issue: IndiaNeed to respect each other's concerns, Modi told Chinese PrezGaza bloodbath continues, diplomats scramble for ceasefireCongress moves SC against HC verdict on getting foreign...
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